【佐佐】評論

UnderextensionUnderextension is when a person uses a word in a very restricted fashion, most commonly seen used by children that are just gaining mastery over language. To give an example of underextension, a young boy that sees a dog in the park will not say it is a dog, for only THEIR dog is a dog. In their mind, they think that a word is referring to a very specific instance of a certain concept other than all types and examples of the concept. (Studies done by: Caplan & Barr, 1989) You may point at the strange dog in the park, but the child would shake their head and tell you no. Upon ...

【108新北英師正取Elva】評論

LF 8.3 Plurals Overgeneralizations: the child discovers the morpheme –s and suddenly applies it uniformly to all plural nouns. eg. man becomes mans